a paperback book isnt alive until you break its spine btw like a long slumbering animal being carefully roused it actually needs you to do that like when you click your knuckles. for your paperback book the breaking of its spine is like the first stretch against your pillow in the morning

Boycott Black Friday! Every year the capitalists generate millions in profits from this sham of a "holiday". Target them where it really hurts: their wallets. Make our voices heard.

IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND A PROTEST/RALLY FRIDAY- DO NOT BUY ANYTHING ON FRIDAY, BOTH VIRTUALLY OR IN PERSON.

2 MILLION PALESTINIAN LIVES ARE AT STAKE!

SELF PUBLISHED AND SMALL PRESS AUTHORS: CHECK YOUR AMAZON PAGES

Recently I found out that my book was just gone. Completely wiped from Amazon. My author page said I never published anything. I got word from my publisher that this was a glitch with Amazon and they were working on fixing it. That was three days ago, and my book is not back up.

According to my publisher, small presses (between 200 to 1000 books) randomly had several titles “dropped” from Amazon.

My worry is that this may have also affected self published books that are only sold through Amazon. Please go check and make sure your work is still up. Even if just to make sure.

truly the only point of those cheap dropshipping sites is so I can type "earrings for men" into them at 3am and then go "🤔 hmm..." at all the pictures

If US politicians refuse to listen to our calls for ceasefire via letter, call, email, or petitions, then it's time to hit them where it hurts.

Don't buy anything during Black Friday or Cyber Monday. The American government cannot function without the funds of its people.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

i know whipping girl is primarily focused on the transfeminine side of things but as a trans guy i already think it has some super interesting things to say about transmasculinity.

While trans people on the female-to-male (FTM) spectrum face discrimination for breaking gender norms (i.e., oppositional sexism), their expressions of maleness or masculinity themselves are not targeted for ridicule-to do so would require one to question masculinity itself.

like obviously trans men face transphobia in different ways than trans women but i’d never thought of it in that specific way- it’s a really good point. my masculinity specifically has never been mocked but rather the fact that i am performing it at all.

its a really interesting way to point out the differences in oppression that trans men and trans women face. while a trans woman might be mocked for being too feminine, a trans guy isn’t (at least in my experience) mocked for being too masculine, rather for attempting to attain masculinity at all. femininity for trans women is seen as unattainable where as for trans men it’s seen as inescapable. whichever way you look, the concept of womanhood is being weaponised against trans people. as is such, transphobia towards trans men and trans women both stems from misogyny.

i’d love to hear some other trans guys thoughts on this! do you agree? or have you been in a situation where your masculinity has been mocked?

i think i’ll post excerpts of my favourite bits as i read through, even just these first few pages have been great. if anyone thinks i’m completely off base with my analysis let me know haha.

i fully believe piracy could improve online services. EXPONENTIALLY.

listen. listen. how many times do we use websites we DONT LIKE to acquire a certain asset because we think theres no other options? A FUCKIN LOT

BUT! piracy becomes wider spread. COMPANIES are thrown off their high horses, being forced to work + do better to gain attention, because why would we even need them anymore? we've got piracy.

trying to raise prices needlessly? NOPE. trying to lower quality of products? NOPE. (etc. etc. because i'm too sleepy to expand more rn)

anyways. fuck establishment. fuck capitalism. good ngight

Without colors or context, this simple and stupid comic of mine feels so, so tense; It's ominous. The difference from the tone of my last doodle is low-key hilarious though. But please, *insert ace joke here* cause I swear this is nothing serious. I don't even know why I gave in so much effort or show ya'll my progress before finishing, yet here we are. -Bubbly💙

Draft folder my beloved, what would i do without you?? 🥺

Treat me ~ Tip me ~ More of me

dumping some thoughts in the tags

A seemingly rare or unused piece of advertisement art for Phantom of the Paradise, done by artist Dave Stevens (most famous for his comic-turned-movie The Rocketeer). Taken from the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn To Perfection, around 8:11.

You don’t “try to start a business” you give it your all or nothing. Businesses don’t fail. People fail their businesses.

The Creeproductions are dropping?? When?? Where??

I keep seeing people make posts about the drop but I have no details, pls 😭